Transport in Belarus



This article is about transport in Belarus.

Railways
Rail transport in Belarus is operated by Belarusskaya Chyhunka total: 5,512 km country comparison to the world: 32 broad gauge: 5,497 km of gauge (874 km electrified) (2006)


 * City with underground railway system: Minsk, see Minsk Metro
 * For tramway systems: see List of town tramway systems in Belarus

Highways
The owners of highways may be the Republic of Belarus, its political subdivisions, legal and natural persons, who own roads, as well as legal entities, which roads are fixed on the basis of economic or operational management.

Republican state administration in the field of roads and road activity is the Department Belavtodor under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus.

In total, in Belarus there are more than 93,000 km of roads and 200 km of departmental thousand (agriculture, industry, forestry, etc.), including 10000 mi in cities and towns. The density of paved roads has been relatively low – 337 km per 1,000 km2 territory – for comparison, in European countries with well-developed road network, the figure is an average of 906 km.

total: 93,055 km paved: 93,055 km (2003)

Waterways
2,500 km (use limited by location on perimeter of country and by shallowness) (2003) country comparison to the world: 37

Belarus' inland waterways are managed by Dneprobugvodput, Belvodput, and the Dnieper-Berezinsky Enterprise.

Pipelines
gas 5,250 km; oil 1,528 km; refined products 1,730 km (2008)

Ports and harbors

 * Mazyr - on the river Pripyat

Airports
65 (2008): country comparison to the world: 76


 * Minsk International Airport
 * Minsk-1
 * Gomel Airport

Airports - with paved runways
total: 35 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 22 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,524 m: 1 under 914 m: 6 (2008)

Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 30 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 26 (2008)

Heliports
1 (2007)Heliports is where helicopter land.

National air-carrier

 * Belavia